Thursday, August 31, 2017, I wrote, in part, the following;

I believe the important numbers are the 75/25 split for health insurance costs and the fact that yearly increases are reaching double digit numbers. If health insurance increases by 13% and Town revenue from property taxes can only increase by 2 1/2% without a town approved override, I do not think you have to be a math genius to figure out that scenario cannot continue for long without something changing. Perhaps the split should change with the increase in costs. A 13% increase in insurance costs is met with a 13% change in the split, until you get to the 50/50 split. I believe the law is that the town has to pay at least 50% of the costs.

Then davey smart commented, as noted below:

david smart3:35 PM

jefie only needs to ask questions to get answers. That's how it usually get done.
The highway/sewer negotiated a contract like the unions do year after year.
Jefie has a problem with the leadership that offered the contract we agreed to and can only piss and moan over it.
As the people in town read his gibberish they must think he is a real fool to have done the same in the past and now whine like a little baby about a math issue he has.
Until this town gets the school costs under control and has a limit of increase to the school budget the town can absorb only what the school needs are.

Multi over rides have been needed after to low of a tax rate and with no want for it higher taxes will be limited to bare minimum.
Yes Jefie has a problem with the math as it is part of a issue with his lack of common sense and name calling like others on the A.C. seem to have.
So you want answers go to the BOS meetings and ask them on camera.
If jefie looks it up the 50/50 law applies to private business and corporations not covered by unions and the like.If we went by what lil jefie thinks things should be we would be in a worse condition in a hurry.
So think for yourselves and be better off for it.
We know what leadership he provided in the past,our future would be no different.
Ask the Skeltons about Lil jefie,they know him well. 80k worth.

So, then I posted the law;

Massachusetts General Law; chapter 32B:

Section 7: Premiums; withholding, contribution; direct payment

Section 7. (a) With respect to any period of insurance which is in effect for an active or retired employee and dependent there shall be withheld from each payment of salary, wages, other compensation, pension or retirement allowance, subject to the provisions of section nine A, fifty per cent of the premium for the insurance of the employee and his dependents and the governmental unit shall contribute the remaining fifty per cent of such premium.

davey smart (not so) replies as follows;

david smart9:23 PM

a Town, that is required to pay at "least" 50% of health insurance premium.
As i said negotiated by the elected board will be the benefit.
Hard for the ones who pick at things to understand or decipher the reason behind things of this magnitude.But i wouldn't expect this blog to have much to offer anyway.

As anyone can read through this, you can see davey smart (not so) tries to wiggle his way out of what he said. It is pretty clear that someone who serves on the Templeton insurance advisory committee was not really aware of what the law states and does not seem to understand how it applies. This is also someone who is suppose to be the "owner" of a blog with a stated purpose "to keep the citizens of Templeton informed" Again, perhaps this is part of the problem in Templeton, with davey smart (not so) serving on the insurance advisory committee and the zoning board of appeals. That is my opinion anyway.